Liquid soap



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

LIQUID SOAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 269,413, dated December 19, 1882. Application filed October 28, 1882. (No specimens.)

110 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE HENKEL and HENRY HENKEL, citizens of the United States,

I residing at Logan, in the county of Hocking and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and very useful Improvements in Liquid Soap, of which the following is a specification.

Our. liquid soap consists of the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz: Pure water, one hundred gallons; caustic soda, two hundred and seventy pounds; borax, thirty-five pounds; alum, four pounds, spirits of ammonia, two gallons. These ingredients, except the spirits of ammonia, are to be placed over a fire in a proper vessel and heated until thoroughly mixed and combined. When this mixture is cold the spirits of ammoniais to be added. Then the liquid soap should be drawn off into air-tight. vessels to prevent evaporation, when it is ready for use 20 in quantities, according to direction.

Having thus fully described our said improvement, whatwe claim as our invention, and desire to secure .byLettersaPatent, is-

A liquid soap composed of one hundred gal- 25 ions of pure water, two hundred and seventy pounds of caustic soda, thirty-five pounds of borax, four pounds of alum, and two gallons of spirits of ammonia.

' GEORGE HENKEL.

HENRY HENKEL. Witnesses:

L. S. BORT, A. MGUARTNEY. 

